This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy.The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman s poetry, his...
This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preemine...
This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her before and after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" catapulted her to fame. Included are periodical articles by Fanny Fern and Charles Dudley Warner; biographical essays by Sarah Josepha Hale and Rose Terry Cooke; letters by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Jacobs; recollections by Frederick Douglass, Annie Adams Fields, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Charles...
This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family me...